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AHEAD system design facility (SYSDEF)

AHEAD system design facility (SYSDEF). LACK of flight opportunities is our MAJOR problem. Introduction . problem Important and challenging science Significant technology development

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AHEAD system design facility (SYSDEF)

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  1. AHEADsystem design facility (SYSDEF) LACK of flight opportunities is our MAJOR problem

  2. Introduction problem • Important and challenging science • Significant technology development • Small number of European flight opportunities by ESA or clearly led by a single nation (also outside Europe but this is not the issue) approach • Increase flight opportunities (encourage collaborations in Europe) • Be prepared to win competition with other fields with realistic mission proposals

  3. SYSDEF: ideas • Up to the community but could include • Large area high time resolution instrument • Full sky monitoring (Lobster) • Polarimetery • Interferometry • Scaled down version of EDGE (spectrometer with fast repointing) • Gamma-ray imaging (DUAL) • Rocket/balloon experiments to validate technology and to provide focus? • But some can possibly be more efficiently studied nationally (which is fine as well)

  4. SYSDEF: concept Project selection • Input from the community (coordinated by JRA coordinator) • Selection by steering group + JRA coordinator Per selected project • Definition of science requirements (you) • Conceptual design of the mission/instrument (you + industry) • Trade-offs for key components/options (orbit, platform, …) • System study/design (industry) • Report (project engineer) Follow up • Community or ESA CV process

  5. SYSDEF: team (it is all about money?) • JRA coordinator (SRON) plus one full time project engineer • Per study a small science team/experts defining payload and providing feedback (travel and part of the time funded through JRA) • Per study one industry (more is too expensive). Thales-Alenia showed interest to participate on a 50-50% basis. No talks with other industries so far. • Full time project engineer responsible for generation of final study outcome (a detailed PPT presentation and a SPIE-like article)

  6. SYSDEF budget

  7. SYStem DEfinition Facility Pro • Possibility to include industry with own funding • X-ray missions within ESA too few: collaborate as minor partner with JAXA/NASA or try to organize European collaborations • Mission concepts even for two large space agencies too large (Simbol-X), need to create multi-national involvement • Prepare for << M-class missions • Prepare for M-class ESA proposals CV2 (estimate is that there will be a heavier emphasis on cost) Con/problems • Some agencies (CNES) have this capability themselves • Why can ESA not provide this service (in the past they did)? • How select the projects? • How to judge the outcome if there is no expert team or if there are no two competing industries?

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